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Southeast Asia’s top diplomats have met to push a peace plan for Myanmar’s civil war and finalize a nonaggression pact with China.

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BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military-backed party emerged the winner of an election , final official figures showed Wednesday, as the country’s army chief signed a law authorizing a new consultative body that ...

Human rights groups and some western countries have denounced the election, the first held since the 2021 coup, describing it as neither free nor fair Myanmar’s military-backed party has completed a ...

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Tiny The Gambia was the first to take another country to the ICJ as a third-party rights defender. Gambian Justice Minister and Attorney General Dawda Jallow sits in the courtroom, next to lawyer ...

BANGKOK -- The three-phase general election in military-ruled Myanmar ended on Jan. 25 just the way it began -- dogged by suspicions that it is little more than a performative exercise designed to ...

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